Cartoon Saturday

And you thought things couldn't get much worse ...

In its first official act of the 118th Congress, the GOP majority proudly and happily passed a bill to reverse the funding provided to the IRS by the Inflation Reduction Act ... a move which, according to the Congressional Budget Office, would add about $114 billion to the deficit over the next decade; serial fabulist George Santos, whose cascade of lies led to his election to the House, refused to resign and was defended by the House GOP "leadership," which desperately needs his vote in the narrowly-controlled House; Congressional Republicans anxious for revenge over investigations of the previous administration plan to establish a new House Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government by Everyone Except Republicans, to be headed by professional bomb-thrower Jim Jordan; a series of deadly storms continued to pummel California with devastating floods and mudslides; Republicans exploded in orgasmic schadenfreude over the discovery of classified documents found in President Biden's home and in an office he used at his think tank; and Russian wannabe Tsar Vladimir Putin has fired the commander of his army in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovkin, after only three months, replacing him with Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov ... Surovkin will remain in his post until Putin locates a window high enough for him to fall out of.

My collection of cartoons waiting to be sorted into categories in the file is getting unwieldy, so I guess I'll thin it out this week with a no-theme edition of Cartoon Saturday ... and away we go!

The GOP takeover of the House of Representatives has led to a lot of cartoons and jokes about what monkeys throw, so how about a non-poop-flinging-monkey cartoon? ...

It'll be settling in quickly enough ...

Animals are often more talented than we realize. And they lend themselves to clever puns, too ...

I feel the same way ...

You may have been wondering how the networks pick the talking heads for their news segments ...

If at first you don't succeed ...

Trash sorting in early January ...

This is as accurate as it gets ...

So, how would you sort books on this topic? ...

And finally, a cartoon that sums up the way I feel on most days this year ...

I hope you enjoyed today's cartoon potpourri, and that it helped you get past the dispiriting news of the week. I'm always here for you.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Musical Sunday returns for the new year.

Bilbo